Civic Tech Field Guide

Civic Innovation School

Civic Innovation School is an International Extitution structured as a Distributed Network that promotes Collaborative Learning Environments focused on Civic Innovation, Collective Intelligence, Open Design, Civic Engagement.

trainings

Citizinvestor

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)

United Nations Foundation

Advancing an inclusive digital society

Visualization and Data Analytics Lab (ViDA)

Electionland

Are you a reporter interested in covering voting issue this election cycle? See our Electionland project.

Creative Placemaking Policy Fellows

Arizona State University

It is the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engaged design into comprehensive community planning and development.

place-based

Kiva

Kiva, Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

Support women, entrepreneurs, students and refugees around the world with as little as $25 on Kiva. 100% of your loan go to support borrowers.

Liftware

269 E Grand Ave, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

BrightFunds

Collideoscope

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Tell us about your collisions and near-misses, so we can build the evidence base for improvements, together

Votizen

Activism platform

City Journal

52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

coUrbanize

33 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110, USA

coUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.

Chi Hack Night

Chicago's weekly event to build, share, and learn about civic tech.

Community Leaders for Internet Health

Africa

Community Leaders for Internet Health spotlights internet issues in diverse local community contexts and creates collaboration among local leaders to engage with tools for open campaigning towards Internet Health. Our program enables people in underrepresented regions to assess the state of the Internet in their community and share their stories on the challenges and opportunities encountered

Code for Greenville

Greenville, SC, USA

a Code for America brigade

CIV:Lab

335 Madison, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10173

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

cities

New Cities

Pavillon des Sciences de la gestion, bureau R-4150 315 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est Montréal (Québec) H2X 3X2 Canada

A global nonprofit committed to shaping a better urban future.

cities

GOT Data

Prishtina, Kosovo

GOT Data is an annual international conference, formerly known as ODPA (Opening Data in Public Administration), which gathers public officials and other International open data and transparency stakeholders to discuss the importance and impact that open data has.

Confident Commuter

Australia

Confident Commuter helps people deal with ticket inspectors and fines. The user follows a guided process of questions and answers to find a solution for their case.

mass transit

Rootscamp

Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Mount Vernon Place Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

An annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together.

Conferences

Digital Engagement Evaluation Team at World Bank

North America Google Policy Fellowship

Washington, DC

Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.

Google

Giveth donations

Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth

Public Interest Tech at the Royal Society of Arts Conference

Moscone Center, Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

Across six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.

Techtopia

Techtopia is a multidisciplinary research and teaching initiative that brings together Harvard students and faculty around the biggest issues in tech today.

The ODI's Open Standards for Data Guidebook

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

guides

Causes

Causes.com is the world's largest online campaigning platform. We connect people who support a common cause and empower them to run grassroots campaigns.

CurbLR

Enable cities and companies to communicate clearly about curb regulations to enable better analysis, planning, and management of public space

Flying High

Bradford, London, Preston, Southampton and the West Midland, United Kingdom

Flying High is a collaborative engagement with cities, technologists and researchers, regulators, government, public services and citizens to shape the future of urban drone use in the UK to meet local needs.

Govonestop ®

Seattle, WA, United States of America

your Government One Stop ® for services and information

Source Africa

Africa

It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.

Tech Kontra Wirus

Poland (Polska)

Code for Poland's platform for prioritizing amongst many Coronavirus response ideas

Idea Generation and the Role of Feedback: Evidence from Field Experiments with Innovation Tournaments

In many innovation settings, ideas are generated over time and managers face a decision about if and how to provide in-process feedback to the idea generators a

Research Action Design (RAD)

Textizen

Bay Area, CA, USA

Textizen is a mobile platform dedicated to connecting difficult-to-reach audiences with the public institutions that serve them in scalable, efficient ways.

youth

The Future of Cities handbook

Our conversations illuminated how cities are using innovation and technology to drive impact against the most pressing challenges to achieve better outcomes for residents.

New Story

San Francisco

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

housing

Blueprint

"A tool to help Democratic campaigns sift through data on hundreds of millions of people across the U.S....It will help campaigns decide who to call, text, email and target with digital advertisements during this contentious and unprecedented election year and beyond."

Code for Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Code for Milwaukee is looking for volunteers with a creative mind to come together to make our city better for everyone.

Urban Data Pioneers

Tulsa, OK

Urban Data Pioneers is a program that empowers teams of city employees and community members to work in teams to deeply understand questions through data analysis.

Villgro Africa

Kenya

Villgro Africa addresses the lack of access to quality and affordable health services & technologies in Africa by investing in innovations with the potential for scalable and sustainable business models and by offering technical assistance to entrepreneurs.